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This is already standard practice for several industries. For example, you’d be hard pressed to find a pharma company nowadays that allows the use of any remova
by cepth 8y ago
This is already standard practice for several industries. For example, you’d be hard pressed to find a pharma company nowadays that allows the use of any removable media.
The likely “replacement” is that IBM employees will have to use some sort of corporate VPN to work remotely.
- kevinSuttle 8y agoThey already do.
- forgotmysn 8y agoI thought IBM was ending their remote work options?
- ascagnel_ 8y agoRemote work and working remotely are two very different things. The former usually refers to making your own arrangements for normal working hours outside of commuting to a corporate office; the latter usually refers to off-hours or one-off arrangements. IBM may not want people remote working, but they'll be happy to have people working remotely at nights, on weekends, etc.
- kevinSuttle 8y agoRight. Even when you're on a campus and not on the employee SSID, you need to VPN in.
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- collinf 8y agoWhat sort of Fortune x00 company doesn't use a corporate VPN?
- joombaga 8y agoGoogle
- dchest 8y agoGoogle: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43231 https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43231
- 2sk21 8y agoI work at IBM and I can get almost all of my development work down without logging into the company network when working remotely - quite similar to Google's approach. This is a relatively new development within the past few months.
- ams6110 8y agoLast meeting I was in with an IBM rep, he wanted to download some slides that were not part of his stock presentation, to address some specific questions we had. By the time he got connected to his VPN about 10 minutes had elapsed, and the download was going to take another 90 minutes. He ended up saying he'd email them later. Corportate VPNs are great, but if they don't perform people are going to work around them.